Uncle Bill. Bill Ramsey sings many new songs and tells funny stories

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Bruno Spoerri

Uncle Bill. Bill Ramsey sings many new songs and tells funny stories is a double album from 1976. The record for children is a mixture of a voice record and a music album. The work contains a total of 20 children's songs as first publication. The compositions are by one of the most important Swiss jazz musicians Bruno Spoerri , the lyrics were written by the Swiss cabaret artist Fredy Lienhard . The singer and narrator of the album is the German-American pop and jazz singer Bill Ramsey . Other notable musicians who contributed to Uncle Bill were Renato Anselmi (bass), Thomas Moeckel (electric guitar) and Pierre Favre (drums).

The album was produced jointly by Ramsey and Spoerri and was released on the Intercord label .

Emergence

With his title song Sing a song, Uncle Bill ties in with the successful album from the 1960s Sing a song with Uncle Bill , but far exceeds it in its claim. Ramsey had had numerous hits as a pop singer in the 1960s, and this was the style of his first album with children's songs, but by the 1970s he had turned completely to jazz. At this time Ramsey had also built up a second mainstay as a "child uncle" on the radio and was known to the young television audience, for example from Die Sendung mit der Maus . The collaboration with the important Swiss jazz musicians came about because Bill Ramsey was living in Switzerland at the time of its creation.

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Between the twenty songs by Spörri / Lienhard there are apparently spontaneous chats between Bill Ramsay and the children Oliver and Daniel Röhricht, Martin Düwel, Hassan Mohammed and Angela Remuss, who often sing along with refrains on the record. The participation of a child from the second generation of migrant workers in Germany in the 1960s in 1976 is an early trace of the German immigration society in the youth entertainment of the FRG. The recording does not show any exclusionary tendencies or problematizations like later productions for young people such as B. the book series TKKG , but takes the presence of a child by the name of Hassan as a matter of course. Ramsey himself immigrated to Germany years ago. The sound engineer Hans Joachim Herwald , in his role as sound engineer, is another conversation partner on the recording.

Track list

  1. Sing a song, Uncle Bill
  2. But a Limburg cheese
  3. What does the cook have in the pan?
  4. The kangaroo
  5. The crocodile
  6. What is my aunt, my aunt, doing at the zoo?
  7. The flea in the zoo
  8. The lama - this is a drama
  9. Hansi and Junker
  10. The church mouse
  11. A big, fat sparrow
  12. Ant and great tit
  13. The parrot
  14. foreign languages
  15. The croaking frog
  16. The millipede
  17. An A horn and a B horn
  18. Bookworm and woodworm
  19. The Chess Piece Cabinet
  20. Götz von Berlichingen

The lyrics of the jazz-oriented children's songs are partly reminiscent of Ramsey's great hits, such as Pigalle or Wumba-Tumba chocolate ice cream seller , but are often musically more complex.

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